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1. Repressive Change People don’t always have the liberty to make their own choices and changes are forced upon them by some other group, in the course of conquest and colonialism.
Acculturation
Culture changes that people are forced to make as a consequence of intensive, firsthand contact between societies.
Ethnocide
Violent eradication of an ethnic group’s cultural identity; occurs when a dominant society sets out to destroy another society’s cultural heritage.
Genocide
Extermination of one people by another, in the name of “progress,” either as a deliberate act or as the accidental outcome of activities carried out by people with little regard for their impact on others.
2. Repressive Change: GenocideEthnographic Examples Two examples of attempted genocide in the 20th century: Hitler’s Germany against Jews and Gypsies in the 1930s and the 1940s; and Hutus against Tutsis in Rwanda, as in this 1994 massacre.
3. Repressive Change: GenocideCivil War in Darfur (ex from Ch. 12)